Design Entry

[dertarr]

Hi! There are several minor issues about Xilinx ISE 13.4 Editor that I want to make known. 1. Is it possible to make ISE remember "Long Line Marker" checkbox position in "View" menu? Or have an option to always enable it by default for every file in "ISE Text editor" preferences section just near "Long line marker location" editbox? 2. When Editor or Console window are in focus, extension keys of a keyboard wouldn't work. That is multimedia keys for example like "Mute", "Play/Pause", "Start Calculator" and others. 3. Editor Performance is highly dependable on density of comments. When a source file has many comments and these lines with comments are on the screen, navigation through the file becomes sloooooow.

[gszakacs]

Most people who have used more than one generation of ISE have given up on the

built-in editor and use an external editor instead.  This gives you a consistent user

interface that doesn't break with every new ISE version and allows you to spend more

time on designing and less on learning to work around new "improvements" in

the user interface.

I don't think the ISE text editor is very high on Xilinx's priority list when it comes to fixing

bugs in ISE.  Probably best to save some nerve, lower your blood pressure, etc. by

choosing a good external editor.  Search the forums for suggestions.  A lot of people

like emacs, but if you're more used to a Windows look and feel, you might prefer

Notepad++ MED SlickEdit or others.

-- Gabor